Blip Festival Tokyo: Goto80 / Raquel Meyers

Goto80 partnered with Autoboy on the 2008 Commodore 64 game HT Gold. The re-appropriation of old school hockey game Hat Trick, programmed to go haywire and gradually fall apart, was on display at the recent Chicago GLI.TC/H art installation. The Swedish musician, responsible for chip music albums like the well received Commodore Grooves, is himself critical of artistic pretensions. When invited to perform on Rampljuset, a Swedish television program, he wore a lettuce suit.

Raquel Meyers collaborated with multimedia artist Bram van der Poel on THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF WH-TVR. As the paradoxical title suggests, the goals offered to the player of "finding the discs and feeding the dogs" elude any kind of satisfying resolution. Raquel's debut DVD release from lightrhythm visuals, useless yet crucial, will be available soon. As with her Tokyo Blip Festival performance with Saitone of 8-Bit Thriller, the visuals rendered in the low-fi aesthetic of early home computers are filled with beautiful and grotesque imagery.